You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.