There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

I like to have fun but my fun is different from other people's fun.

How would your life change if your self-esteem improved?

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.