Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Nowadays, nobody can teach you a useful thing about life, since models are outdated one moment after.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.

First of all, be what you are.

I don't have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

What you do is not as important as how you do it.