... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

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

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

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.