To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.