There are no shortcuts to greatness

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

My husband is not running for the presidency, neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children.

Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.