If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

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.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

Disease is an experience of so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ.