Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

such a short time. I am about to tell our barker,

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,

Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.

Notice the people you encounter in this life.

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.

I always love it best when you have a project where there is this commingling of the subject matter and the way in which you're recording that subject matter.

Smoke that herb and clear your mind.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.