"I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world."

"Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!"

"It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away."

"A film about my life? But I am not dead."

"My private life became public."

"I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life."

"I never do anything by chance."

"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."

"I have not always loved wisely, but I was young."

"I have to live with both my selves as best I may."

"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."

"Life is the soul's nursery -Its training place for the destinies of eternity."

"It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it."

"There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa."

"There lived a sage in days of yore,And he a handsome pigtail wore;But wondered much and sorrowed moreBecause it hung behind him."

"There lived a sage in days of yore, And he a handsome pigtail wore; But wondered much and sorrowed more Because it hung behind him."

"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!"

"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face."

"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."

"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."

"Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."

"Life is the childhood of our immortality."

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."