They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

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.

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.

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