Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

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.

It is in the midst of laughter that our perspective alters and we realize this trying life can still be enjoyed.

Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.

There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.

You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.

The film makers are the true movie stars.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

I came so far- from nothing to a Super Bowl championship

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.