The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.

Explanations are a substitute for trust.