It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

The law, " he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead...

I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.

Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

It's never long distance between friends.