Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even it

We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that irritate us. When we focus on the bigger picture, those small things fade away.

Change happens internally. That's where books go too. Therein lies the power.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.