Marriage is a very long process.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to act what we should feel if the community is to be well served rather than behave as we actually do feel in our selfish private feelings.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.