Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.