A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.