Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

I am terrified of being bored.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

God can turn everything that seems negative in our life around and make it positive, for our good

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in love . . . .

We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.

In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.