Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

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.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be.

Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

The way to maximize outcome is to focus on the process.

How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally.

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.