“Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.”

I would not say that I was, these days, a ‘student’ of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God’s thoughts after him.

Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by – think!

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

I won’t be like Snow White and wait around for some guy. Prince charming’s kiss isn’t the only thing that makes me feel alive.

We were so beautiful together, I thought we were magic or even the greatest fairytale except there was no villain just a lost prince whose heart did not love his wildfire princess.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

You will be the beautiful prince you were always meant to be.

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he’s everything you ever wanted.

Never look back. If Cinderella had looked back and picked up the shoe she would have never found her prince.

What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well.