I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

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.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.