Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.