Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.