The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

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.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.