[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.