The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.