Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.