I must endure & endure & still endure.

When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?