"Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]"

“The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.”

“A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.”

“Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.”

“Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.”

“To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“The information we need is not available. The information we want is not what we need. The information we have is not what we want.”

“I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.”

Source : "Zara Phillips: First Horses, Then Babies (Maybe)" by Simon Perry, people.com. September 7, 2011.