Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.

Family is never really gone.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln'].

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.