Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

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.

We could all use the power of prayer now and then, but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.

Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.

The family is the key of Christmas.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.