... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough