Magic to be its best must be unexpected.

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.

it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall

Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow, " he says after a minute. Then, "Wow, " again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

Wishes can be harmful to us when they overcome patience.

The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong.

It was impossible not to fall in love with him.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

Anger is short-lived madness.

It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.