Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

It's important to remember that there are countless views in infinity.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!

we tend to attract the things we fear.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.