The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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.

People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable.

I miss you but can’t see you. So I go crazy.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.