I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.

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.

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

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.

Then so be it. I’ll go where you go no matter how dark the path.

Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

…she simply accepted it for what it was — a normal, average, everyday kind of miracle.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

I had to come up with some criteria to help me; i.e., what the favor was, if it was legitimate, if it was in no way compromising, and if there would be a benefit some way by my participation.

You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.