We can't always take the most obvious road in life.

Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.