Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Roast beef medium is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

The goats business is none of the sheeps concern.

Christmas isnt a season. Its a feeling.

Houseworks the hardest work in the world. Thats why men wont do it.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Charm is the difference between a rote recitation of God bless you when someone sneezes and a genuine interest in the persons health.

A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.

Online advertising is display plus search.

Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'

My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys, and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

In all our lives, there is a fall from innocence. A time after which, we are never the same.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.