"La malédiction ne vient pas de Dieu. Elle vient de nous-même et ne prend origine que dans nos propres actes." -Les rois maudits

"Le propre des hommes forts n'est pas d'ignorer les hésitations et les doutes qui sont le fonds commun de la nature humaine, mais seulement de les surmonter plus rapidement." -Les rois maudits

"Les infidélités fortuites n'empêchent pas de songer, bien au contraire, à qui l'on est infidèle; c'est même la manière la plus fréquente qu'ont les hommes d'être constants. " -Les rois maudits

"Leurs doigts refirent connaissance, s'interrogèrent et finirent par s'unir, entrecroisés dans ce geste où l'amour se promet plus sûrement que par un baiser, comme si les mains de deux êtres se liaient pour une même prière." -Les rois maudits

"Chacun ne se bat bien qu'avec les armes qui lui sont propres." -Les rois maudits

"Tout acte injuste, même commis pour une juste cause, porte en soi sa malédiction." -Les rois maudits

"A wise man once told me: I don't get it but if that's who you are, don't you dare be ashamed of it."

"Chaque pas doit être un but."

"Honesty is tough but in the end it is the far kinder alternative."

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

"There have been monsters under my bed for so long. And now when they 're not there anymore, I feel like I have to create them."

"Everyone say secrets keep us close. It's wrong. They tear us apart."

"Rien n'est plus triste que la mort d'une illusion."

"You wanna change but you don't know how. Take my power and both your hands and get your life back. I can feel your pain, I know it cripples you but pain can be a motivator. Pain is a call to action. Pain is essential, just like anger is. Take pain in one hand, and anger in the other. Use them. "

"L'amour ne naît que dans le partage. On ne peut en avoir plus pour soi qu'en le donnant aux autres."

"Trouve en toi l'endroit où est la joie, et la joie vaincra la douleur."

"C'est lorsqu'il parle en son nom que l'homme est le moins lui-même. Donnez-lui un masque et il vous dira la vérité."

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

Personally, what I would like the most is to work on a project that would aid the historic rehabilitation of Havana. It's a shame - and it gives me tremendous sadness - to see the precious buildings, to see a city, which could be the most beautiful in Latin America, falling apart and with very little money for renovations.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

I tend to live my life on planes, and I don't separate my social life and my business life.

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of my commitment to making a difference for Alaska Natives.

Fathers be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

I remember telling Mom, 'I can't go to the Betty Ford Center. That's like going to the high school where your mom is the principal.' But maybe I could have gotten the family rate.

I get my highlights touched up with Susan Henry at Shades in Beverly Hills. She developed hypo-allergenic hair color products with no ammonia because she's allergic to others; she's an incredible colorist. She does balayage instead of the foils, and I'll go and she will do my entire head of highlights in an hour.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.