Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Dreams are for little girls to whisper to each other. They don't really come true. I'm a fully grown woman now, Frances Catherine. I don't imagine impossible things.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well.

There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.

Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

I was really happy with it, if I'm honest. I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out. Being told to leave is great. 'Get out you're too pissed', 'Wicked'.

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.

I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.