We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

She marched to the door and said, "if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life is a decent woman, or even, maybe, a book.

YOU will never know your STRENGTH until you overcome the WORST

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.

In love we are all brothers and sisters

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.