With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings

If you solely focus only on financial survival then that is where you will always be.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

President Bush is a friend of mine. He's not a moron at all.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.