In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

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.

A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!

For the mind disturbed the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

I'm against discrimination in all forms.

It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.