Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

The soft strings of the lute rippled with memories, and the maid's lilting voice made Mary sigh as she closed her eyes. She fell asleep filled with sadness, but without regret.

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

Reality is a fragile thing.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

Voices that say the age of the church is over are voices who haven't listened to Jesus.

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.