“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”

“The story of a love is not important. What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”

“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”

“Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.”

“Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”