Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

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.

God created you to be a great, special, and distinguished individual among others, for you to accomplish that which God has put in you

Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

I still believe I have a part to play for England.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.