Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

Suddenly playing the charming bad guy was my thing.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.