Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

to everything there is an end - except fear.