How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

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.

If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?

A Book for the Service Minded as well as the Government Bashers, on How to Be and How Not to Be.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I love France. It's got the sun down at the bottom, the Alps for skiing, and all that wine and food.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.