The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

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.

For every summer & every summer after.Promise your-self to bare a bit more.To take things to a new level.To reinvent. To reflect back.To keep things humble.To tie up loose ends &Let the Sparks Fly...

Kissing, said Lesley, ought really to be taught as a school subject, preferably instead of religious studies, which nobody needed.

After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".