The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.

But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.

It's very disconcerting to start out and to say, "I'm going to tell the truth," and then to realize it's that much trouble.

I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.