To be entirely happy in marriage, the same thing must be important to both.

I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the other queens, I know. I am the most beautiful queen in Europe.

Nothing is ours really, not even our own souls!

My love for my country is my religion.

in much knowledge there is also much grief.

What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

We who are placed above the crowd are not climbing ... so we are never out of breath.

Are all ends of life so sad?

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

When the rain stops falling, the pain comes fooling.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.