Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

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

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?