And happiness is always louder than sadness.

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.