Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

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.

Often the unfavorable events of our lives are a catalyst for long needed change, so what seemed like a poor decision in the beginning can result in much better quality of life in the long term.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I have work to do as a human being.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.