When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5)

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

You have to be daring and make something that doesn't look like anybody else.

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.

I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.

I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.