Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write 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.

When you are loved, you can do anything in creation.

We need time so to can explain the stuff in easy way.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

Spirituality is connected with practicality.

If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.