Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Is God giving you victory this day, if not this whole day, how about this very minute?

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.