I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

I accept differences of cultures in all countries. But unfortunately, cows are grown to be eaten, dogs are not. I accept that many people eat beef, but a cultured country does not allow its people to eat dogs.

It is impossible to look young unless one is young.

To experience the loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.