If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.