Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, -Wait and hope.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.

Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

Life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.