Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

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.

If you are not able to find peace within yourself, no one will be able to bring you peace.

When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

Chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate covered raisins, chocolate covered pretzels... Chocolate. So afraid to be alone.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.

I really love to make movies.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken