Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble.

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Solitude was a spell that freed her.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.