If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.