People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

I would rather live 10 years doing what I Love, than drag through Life 50 years, hating everyday I Live.

If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.

Love is the spirituality of the soul.

Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.

You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.