Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

The end must justify the means.

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd.

They never taste who always drink They always talk who never think.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.