Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.

People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness. They purchased that greatness but only through the currency of time.

Change, I've come to understand, rises up like nausea: the promise of relief is what makes it bearable.

Amazingly, my impatience didn’t speed up the procession at all.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.