People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.