“Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does.”

Promise me one thing: don’t take me home until I’m drunk – very drunk indeed.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn’t love me!

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

Paris is always a good idea.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

There is a shade of red for every woman.

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.

True friends are families which you can select.

I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and have the possibility to love.

Love in this dying world but the simple word “love” itself already died and went away.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.