Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

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.

this heart yearns...for the salt of unsmelt airunswept thunderstorms...unknown adventures.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.