I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

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.

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.

His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.

There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.