I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.

When you fondle meWith your feathery hands, Then…! I feelThe cabal’s of fireflyCreep into my soul

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.