Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.

life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

Follow your heart, and listen when it speaks to you.

The love withheld is always the love we long for most.

Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.

Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'

We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle.