She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

I am, I know I am, the use of God’s limitless opulence and supply.

If you find something greater than yourself, to move you! Then you will make every single dream, become a reality!

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies?

People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.