To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Business is other people's money.

The best religion is the most tolerant.

There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved.

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

I am made of joy! I am joy! My vibration is constantly raising, and I feel good!

I love working in New York theater.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.