These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

I have to be seen to be believed.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why!

I believe it is peace in our time.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.

'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.

Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.

All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.