invaders always destroy libraries.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth.

Some of the greatest journeys of humankind are those that, at the time being, only the one living it understands.

I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

I would prefer to use the word free. I think the Dior thing is so much freer. There was not so much free about Jil's way of working.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.