As long as there is one house there must be one hand. - Willa Cather

Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she knew herself — except that the changes were all in the direction of becoming more and more herself.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.

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