The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.