Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.