If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

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 mind is a powerful force. It can enslave us or empower us. It can plunge us into the depths of misery or take us to the heights of ecstasy. Learn to use the power wisely.

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

One of the great advantages ofhaving a library, your eminence, is that it is full of books.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.