Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.

You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

If I could sing, it would be lovely.