Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

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.

Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance is you being in your heart in the midst of it.

Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

If. A two-letter word for futility.