If youth knew; if age could.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

What some invent the rest enlarge.

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.

Half a loaf is better than none.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.