When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.

Most people only have stray thoughts and it stays at that. But you’ve got power, darlin'. You flung out walking evil. Let's hope you can bring up a remedy too.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.