"Wedded love is founded on esteem."

“I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.”

“I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.”

Source : "2014 Women Who Dare: Uzo Aduba". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2014.

“I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.”

“It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.”

“What's lightly hid is deepest understood,”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”

“I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.”

Source : Elinor Glyn (1902). “The seventh commandment”

“There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.”