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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.