When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.