Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

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.

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.