... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

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.

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.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.