The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

Be yourself, DO NOT ACT.

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.