The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

God you are so good, you gives what is needful.

LIVE WELL___Forget them not, yet forgive, forgive..from self-harm, quita new page, right nowyour spirit's new year's eve.

A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.

Don’t jump on the bandwagon just because everyone’s doing so.

Sometimes through a smile it can be a lot of pain, but no matter what, mothers love will keep you strong.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.