It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

To have abundance, appreciate what you have with great love and share your possessions with joy.

One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude.

The rain fell like dead bullets.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.

And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That's artificial intelligence.