I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

I am terrified of being bored.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

Richness does not exist in being wealthy

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

I am really Method-y.

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

Progress has been much more general than retrogression

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

Revolutions never go backwards.