Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

Silence always gives consent.

When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.