When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.