“What's beautiful is to refuse to let yourself stop, sit down, fall asleep, or look back.”

“youre beautiful', he said without grandiloquence. 'that's the least of it', she replied politely.”

“French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.”

“If you look over to see what the beautiful young woman sitting next to you is reading, and it turns out to be a book about angels, then you can with perfect justification refuse her entry into your life.”

“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.”

“In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.”

“Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.”