Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

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.

We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.

You may spend years being somebody to everybody, yet you can't find 60 seconds to be someone to someone else. Find the time today to be somebody's someone.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.

The revery alone will do If bees are few.

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.