"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."

"With women, the heart argues, not the mind."

"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"

"I have learnt how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch."

"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."