The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

I have never met a person I admired who did not read more books than I did.

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."