Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

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.

Don't regret anything you do, because in the end it makes you who you are.

I get a kick out of cursing people for life on Sundays.

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.