Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Christ Jesus is full of compassion, if we come to Him, He will heal us.

Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

Circles create soothing space.

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.