I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!

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.

God can answer every need.

Congratulations, man. What's her name?""Estelle. It was my grandmother's name. Um, on my mom's side, obviously. Not Poseidon's.""I approve, " Alex said. "Old-fashioned and elegant. Estelle Jac

When I was really young, I can remember being into fashion, but I was really into horses and sports.

Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.