Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.