The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

The soul is healed by being with children.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.