The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.