From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.