In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

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

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.