Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.