having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

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!]

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.