Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

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.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Keep trying?I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky

Keep trying hard because there is always a next time.

When I walk in the front door after a shift, Lucy, I want your mouth on mine before I even get my jacket off

Politicians look for interests not people

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have.

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.