I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
Give us being and feeling over having any day.
French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.
I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.
Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.