Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.