Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.

Soap?""School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes, ” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.

Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation.

That's it. New rule: no more flirting during the zombie apocalypse

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.