Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

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.

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

My life needs editing.

Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.

Choose empathy over apathy.

Like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at talking to women. And some at both, now that’s luck I guess.

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

I'm glad you're here. We've had some...interesting developments." Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.