We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

We believe world peace is inevitable.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

I will be a good wife, " she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel.

The best part of my life is, My death will not cause pain for anyone.

A man can never fill the longing for my one true God.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.