My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

People always like things that seem exotic.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

The world wishes to be deceived.

for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.