youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

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.

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

Love is the most powerful gift we have to offer.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

It's not that we have to give to support the gospel. Giving is the gospel.

In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

I have always admired the way women put outfits together.