Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.

Through our work and play, each of us eventually becomes a personification of what we cherish in life.

Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.

Really believing in "once upon a time". Believing that it will draw you in, take you with me to a place you've never been before.

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.