"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"
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.
Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.
Never regret anything that makes you smile.
My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
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.
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.
There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.
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 probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
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.
There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.
“My greatest achievement was convincing my wife to marry me.”
The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.
