Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

Youth has no age.

Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

All is bound by the law of causation

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.