Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Tomorrow you will belong to someone else," Finn said. "But tonight, you're with me

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance sheet, which shows assets and liability. That is also true for a country.

Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

Seek the opportunity to act on your ideas and dreams.