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.

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 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.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they’re the ones to take it away from you.

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me?Kagome: I guess so.Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Baptists burn more slowly.

The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented.