Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.