All big changes of the world come from words.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.

There are beauties all around you. All you have to do is look to reveal them.

Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities

Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get.

God saved us so that we could become servants of his will and dedicate ourselves to what he wants us to do

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.