No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!

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.

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.

Love not because you have to attract someone, love because you have an abundance of love in your heart.

Failure isn't your enemy

If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

The poor sleep little.