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

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.

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.

Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and serenity, and benefits others as well.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion, in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Getting defensive doesn't hide the fact that you know you could have done better. Stop putting your energy into your excuses.

Don't spend a lifetime regretting the decisions that you made. Chances are, that someone else would have made them for you anyway.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.