Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

I never say 'never,' and I never say 'always.'

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else.Thank you, Confucious.

Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

I got a smoke alarm at home, but really it's more like a 9-volt-battery-slowly-drainer.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

I know who I am and the values I have.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.