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.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.