Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.

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.