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

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

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.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

A poem round and perfect as a star.

Nothing lasts forever but we always try, and I just can't help but wonder why we let it pass us by

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

You're supposed to look a certain way when you're a celebrity, but I want to take care of my baby, and those two things don't mesh very well.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.