The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.