“Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.”

“My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.”

“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”

“Was it possible that the emotion of love had somehow made me more susceptible to fear? Does the noble emotion of love make us start valuing our own lives and the lives of our loved ones more so tha...”

“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”

“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ”

“I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.”

“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express because I am my husband's life as fully as he is m...”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.”