No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us, " I said."We know us, " said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

The UK crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.

We cannot have peace on Earth until we learn to speak with one voice. That voice must be the voice of reason, the voice of compassion, the voice of love. It is the voice of divinity within us.

They were actually really nice to me [in Fast 8]. We had BBQs every day on set. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of good times.

My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.