Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

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.

I always get lost in the library, ' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.

Dear God I pray for patience. And I want it right now!

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

The power of art is the power of truth.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.