It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.

You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor, ' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

Sometimes, you lose (a game) and sometimes the other team wins.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

You get out of life what you put into it ... simple

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."