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

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

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

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

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

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