"I’m glad I don’t have to live over again. I don’t want to. It’s a bore."

"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want."

"I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere."

"France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of an idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves of Massachusetts and the cherry blossoms of Washington, and…"

"I believe in the power of words. I believe that words can change the world."