It is no use lying to one's self.
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.