Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

There are people out there who want to say yes. That gave me confidence to keep asking.

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.