Too much information is rather deadening.

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, Beauty and Truth are synonymous. Take any one of the three paths and you will reach the goal.

We are all beautiful in the eyes of God.

They think you care, They'll walk all over you

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.