El pan comido y la compan? |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

If I had a dream or a goal… then maybe I would be able to overcome the obstacles in my way.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.

It doesn't take much to make me happy.

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed