When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.