"Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!"

“Diplomacy: lying in state.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1906). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

“For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and also for red carpet appearances.”

“Whatsoever contradicts my sense, I hate to see, and never can believe.”

Source : Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.189

“Traders take a good system and destroy it by trying to make it into a perfect system.”

“I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.”

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”

Source : Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.108, Zola Books

“I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.”

Source : "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

“We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.”