What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.

Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

Commitment and co-operation to overcome barriers and difficulties, and determination to achieve the standards of the EU as well as NATO membership, are and have always been the principal target.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

My difficulties belong to me!