You are in training, and therefore your personal taste and opinions are not to be trusted until they are fully and reliably shaped - by me.

[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.

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

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

Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person’s values are unique, so are each person’s dreams.

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives.It’s about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.

Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.

Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.