Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

Stupidity is not my forté however, there is immense entertainment value in playing the dumb blonde...

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

Libertarians are learning to their sorrow that big businessmen cannot necessarily be relied upon to be their allies in the battle against extension of governmental encroachments.

Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.