"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

"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

"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

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

If every fool wore a crown we should all be kings.

I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.

'Drekitude' is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. 'Drek' is a total, total, total hot mess.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

I like to have fun but my fun is different from other people's fun.

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

I like women who are okay with who they are.