Success I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' Doris Lessing 14
Peace When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. Doris Lessing 17
Age The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at... Doris Lessing 16
Alone For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. Doris Lessing 13
be the best There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. Doris Lessing 11
