The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

The seasons run with swift feet.