One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

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.

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

Its better to "stay single" than being "single again

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time - bad news is taboo.

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

No dates until you're sixteen. And no boyfriends, either.' I'm not quite sure how to tell Mom, but it looks like I don't just have one boyfriend. I have two.

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

Bring the best of your Authentic Self to every opportunity.

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.