The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Love is like a chill, it touches your heart, fills your mind, and makes you kind.

Your greatest weapon is your MIND! Lock and load it with the greatest ammunition

STORIES" it should not be the perfect, not be untold, not be romedy.. it should be the lesson to teach the human, whats the life is??

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

I wish our love was right now.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.