“People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour...” — Carmen Dell'Orefice Quote

“People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.”

“I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.”

“We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.”

“You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.”

“I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.”

“Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.”

“I have the courage of youth, and I'm not afraid of anything. My only enemies are illegality and corruption.”

“I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.”

“Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.”

“It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.”

“A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.”