Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them.

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 have lived and loved together Through many changing years We have shared each other's gladness And wept each other's tears.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

We've had fairly consistent financial results.

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.