How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!

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.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.