The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

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.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

Delay always breeds danger.

The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.

Festivals become a family because you start seeing the same people.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And yet many continue to defend and promote them.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.