When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

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.

You make this world better by changing your thoughts and by becoming better.

The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.

The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

When we are stirred to lament the loss of the gods, it is more than likely the gods who are doing the stirring.

You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

I just try to remember my lines most of the time.