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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.

Laughing is the best calorie burner.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

How shall I sum up my life? I think I’ve been particularly lucky.

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

I believe in miracles.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

To be beautiful lips - say kind words. To my eyes were beautiful - radiate good. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes, not in its shape or hairstyle. Beauty woman in her eyes, because the eyes - is the gateway to the heart, where love lives.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart

It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Happiness is health and a short memory!

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio. Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm.

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I love people who make me laugh!

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

Life is a party. Dress for it.

Paris is always a good idea.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to - Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Never regret anything that makes you smile.

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.

nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! It's too gruesome.

Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

True friends are families which you can select.

Living is like tearing through a museum.

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets