From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Great necessities call out great virtues.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.