I am excessively diverted.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Is there any Great Teacher like Jesus Christ, He taught his disciplines all that He knew..

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

I have to admit, I do loooove eggnog.

Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.