Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.