I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

The secret code of success is patience, a virtue that can not be replaced. It takes time to build great dreams.

An idea is like a spark in the dark – it makes everything brighter.

Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

But still try, for who knows what is possible?

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.