Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.'No, ' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.

We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.