She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

Don't get consumed by the false idea that being a woman is a disadvantage.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

I speak to lots of people around the world, and no one would tell you that 25 basis points will make a difference to them.

The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.