She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.

An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.

We all have a sea inside us

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.

Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.