Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

We move between two darknesses.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

Learn to accept and bend like the willow. For if you resist, you will break like the oak.

He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.

Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

I find people to be people everywhere. Everyone wants the same thing - be successful.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.