It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.

Each time demands its own kind of film.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

No one promised you there would be universal justice.

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

We're reborn every second, every moment.