Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.

Three of them have the gift of sight but two of them ignore it when what they want most is to believe "this one" will be different.

The world is like a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

I reads every chance I can gets.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?