I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

Paris is always a good idea.

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.