To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

There's a hard life for every silver spoon.There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue.That's the way I see life.If there was nothing wrong...Then there'd be nothing right.

I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in.

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.