After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Any moment which is not captured is loss in events of time.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.