Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.