[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Grief lets you indulge in it, so that it can feed itself.

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.