To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day.

I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.