He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Lovers alone wear sunlight.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

Without this great land of ours, we would all drown.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele.