There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

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.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

War takes many things from people, but unfortunately, pain is not one of them.

Satan is both a fashion designer and an interior designer. He first appeals to the eye and then shouts, “Gotcha!” Then he goes to work on the “inside job.

It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you.

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.

Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance.