What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Shameless is a show I would watch even if I wasn’t on it, it’s my kind of show.