The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

Whatever burden it was that she was carrying around, I wanted to carry it for her.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it.

Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.