Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

I never say 'never,' and I never say 'always.'

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.

The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it. You must find out your gifts and talents.

Does poem also walk the valleys seeking tongues from dandelions?

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

No. They believe we’re dumb animals. And they won’t contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.