The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.