It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.

A woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.

In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.

Everything is only a transition

I am the instigator of my adversities but at the same time I am the architect of my success.

I always ended up doing things I didn’t want to do today just so I didn’t regret not doing them tomorrow.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

I hope that Angela Merkel can become the chancellor of the rebuilding of Europe, in close cooperation with the role that I will play in the process.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.