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.

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

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

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.

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.

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.

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