the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.

I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.