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.

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

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.

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

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

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.