Brigitte Bardot

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"I have learned that forgiveness is more powerful than revenge."

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

"Women are like cats. They purr when they're happy."

"The secret of my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."

"I think that American people are very friendly and open-minded. It's just Canadian people who are a bit more reserved."

"It's better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be."

"I have against me the bourgeoisie, the Communists, and the Catholic Church. That's a lot."

"I would like to be remembered as someone who used her success, her privilege and her platform to help others."

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place worth visiting."

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

"A girl's best friend is her mother, but diamonds are a close second."

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

"Animals have no malice, only humans do."

"The most important thing is to be yourself, because you can only become what you are."

"My philosophy is that if you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?"

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated by society; it is for our qualities."

"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."

"Success is a failure that hasn't happened yet."

"Don't understand why people expect me to be nice when I look like this."

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Work is life, and without it there is nothing but despair."

"I've been very fortunate to be loved by so many people, but I've also been hated."

"Real integrity is doing the right thing when no one's watching."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"I prefer the truth to fairness."

"Life is a gift, and we must treat it as such."

"Never say never because limits like fears are often just illusions."