it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall

Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.

Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.

Magic to be its best must be unexpected.

Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

We are outside again, walking, when he takes a bite and stops dead. "Wow, " he says after a minute. Then, "Wow, " again.I smile. Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris. This will be his.

Did I say stab of Self Pity? No, I was trekking through the Swamp of Self Pity at this point, waist deep in my own stinking shit.

Beware of expectations, It really hurts.

Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it.

A human life is poetry written in our heart.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton's positions are far more in line with the German National Socialism approach than Trump could even dream of being.

I always expect unexpected challenges.