It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.