A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.

Father, break my heart for what breaks yours. Give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me.

Read good, big important things.

My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.

The end is in the beginning.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.