Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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.

I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.