"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

"I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy."

"But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did."