"I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend."

“When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.”

“Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.”

“I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.”

Source : "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.

“I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“The Nazis were seldom dumb and never funny.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could think of nothing better to do than to beguile her with some farrago about wishing Damerel to strew rose-leaves for you to walk on!" Damerel, who had resumed his seat, had been staring moodily into the fire, but at these words he looked up quickly. "Rose-leaves?" His eyes went to Venetia's face, wickedly quizzing her. "But my dear girl, at this season?" "Be quiet, you wretch!" she said, blushing.”

“I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.”

“Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”