There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.

But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.

Nature is woman's best friend, ' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

Revenge is an orphan in bad company she had learnt. Until it accepts the truth, it may never find grace.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

Love's not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

What was particularly impressive by the [Donald] Trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the WikiLeaks stuff.

Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.