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

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.