I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.