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

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

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.

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

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