Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

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.

There are roles that you chase sometimes.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.

Never despise what you don't understand.