We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

We are always children to our mothers.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.