But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

Keep windows of your mind always open, and let the breeze of peace come in with the fragrance of happiness.

The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.

Where will wants not, a way opens.

When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

People will always criticize. Stay upbeat and love yourself! There's nothing wrong with being different.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.