Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

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

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

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.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?