Not everyone is fodder for books, ' said Rosalind.

Some think that authority over the devil belongs to only a few chosen people to whom God has given special power. It doesn’t

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.

We hope to receive what we long for.

Count the deed, not the thought.

There is certainly a red for everyone.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.