No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
Try to be better than yourself.
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.