I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me.

Castes never meant that much to me.

I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

The Selection was no longer something that was simply happening to me, but something I was actively a part of. I was an Elite.

Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while

The past never leaves you. You carry it around with you for as long as you live, like a pale, stubborn worm lodged there in your gut, keeping you up at night.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.