Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren't so damned important.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.