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.

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 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.

Chase away sorrow by living

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

Life is a long boring drive on an empty road punctuated by special moments that make the journey worth taking.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.