When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Make sure you are standing for something you believe in.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

Yech," said Simon. "Don't 'yech' me. You're the one with the magical spit.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

You can and you must expect suffering.

You're just full of awesome; did you know that?