The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.

Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.