The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.

One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.