Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

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.

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.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.