None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

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.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.