Grumbling is the death of love

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Wearing all that weight of learning like a flower.

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

Never depend on a road, depend on your strides

Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences . . . defines us.

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.

The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."