Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.

I hear the most music in the depths of silence.

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.