Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of.

The oddly shaped man had introduced himself as a Mr. Abernathy, a wealthy friend of the family. "I'm a wealthy friend of the family, " he had said. "Very rich. Friendly.

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.

Be an ordinary person with extraordinary heart

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.