It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.

Don't search dreams in the sky, they need strong footage on the earth.

Be kind to everyone, everyone is going through something

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.

Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.

I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.