Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.