Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

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.

If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.

Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.

Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.