A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

When things are falling apart, know they are actually falling into place.

fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.

I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.