All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

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.

And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea...

When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Access to capital is one of biggest challenges for businesses in Africa.

I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart.

Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.

I chase after inspiring stories.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.