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 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?

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.

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

Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!

If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

There is no harder thing to give up than the thing that was supposed to make you happy.

Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.