"To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up."

“I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.”

“I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.”

“Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.”

“I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.”

“If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.”

“One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!”

“It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

“Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.”