Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

I am the most interesting book of all.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

Jesus has to become real to us. We need to court him and get to know him better. Go on some dates with the Lord.

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.

The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch.

Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down.

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.