Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Small things amuse small minds.
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
What is a hero without love for mankind.