It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

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.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.