Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

Be a dreamer.Be a doer.Be a perseverer.Be a winner.

We will always cherish the people who extended great love to us.

We only have one desire, which wants to manifest in thousands of ways, like a flower who blooms in billions of shadesto express her only one desire...to be beautiful

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .