I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

We can reach the goal but it is going to take an incredible amount of time and effort

Human mind is the most unreliable thing in the universe. So control it.

It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.