The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

Headstrong is just a word, Katie - a word others call you when you don't do what they want.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

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!

Some promises are better left unsaid

Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable. He's the only player who can change direction at such a pace.

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.