It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

You just don’t allow time to while away but you take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

It's a town you come to for a short time.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

At the end, entrepreneurship is not about wearing expensive suits and earning a lot of money. It is all about being true to yourself, to your values in life. Your dreams.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in the sand in Darfur to show a massacre.

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.