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.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

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

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