La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.