Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

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.

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.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Eyes are the mirror of your mind. Whatever you see, you see in your reflection.

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron

Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.