[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

...he went off to Paris. Actually, I don't know for sure that Paris is where he ended up.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

Don’t let people draw you into their darkness

The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country.

... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged.

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

I love going out every day and training and being part of the team, and having friendships built up over a number of years. It's those aspects of sport that I feel are really important.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.