Where there is great love there are always miracles.

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.

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Music is just something that explains people lives for them - that's what people call roots

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.