There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.

Sometimes when I have the feeling like I’m almost crying, it can turn into an almost-laughing feeling.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.