Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans. " "But you are an American. " "Incurably so, it seems.
Hate is unfulfilled love.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.
I've had a lot of experience auditioning people, and I can do it rather quickly even though sometimes I let them linger and give them time, but I kind of know after I see them do a couple of steps. I know.
Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.
Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience