I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the other queens, I know. I am the most beautiful queen in Europe.

Nothing is ours really, not even our own souls!

My love for my country is my religion.

in much knowledge there is also much grief.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

Are all ends of life so sad?

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.

I make time every day to think.

Healing doesn't just take a little time, it also takes commitment to get started and to complete the process.

And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers' mothers. A nation's memory.

A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.