Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.