You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.