Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

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.

In worthy teaching, all things are related.

Why do you think that you are weak when you are blessed with the power of love?

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

Frankie scanned her eyes. I don’t ask for things. I take them.

Sincerity is moral truth.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.

The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette.