I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.