Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

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.

The finest clothes anyone can wear are a kind heart and a loving soul.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

You were the only blessing I think, I didn't deserve at first place.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.