That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

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.

Innards came out crossed and complex, like a tumble of plus and minus signs--the equation of human life.

Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.

The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

Once you start to question your life you get to a higher level of awareness. It's like turning a light on-voila you see you have choices and choices are sacred.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.