People who keep journals have life twice

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.