The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love.

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind

I have a regular cleansing, toning and moisturising routine.

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

The worst thing about being lied to, is realizing they don't think you're worth the truth.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

Happiness for me is when my kids are good and when my family is whole.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.