I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

Vibration can be shifted through the mastery of thought

Sometimes I fear the strength of Love.!

What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.

Hearing my daughter laugh is the best way to lift my spirit.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.