Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.