It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.