Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Quote of the day:"You are not a bad person.You are just a good person, in a bad place.

I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part.

I am not the biggest, I am not the strongest, but I am Damn sure the toughest!

Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me. I was not mistreated or harmed, but I was also not allowed to leave.

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.