“You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”

`When asked,"How do you write ?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.'

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

You know I don't love any one but you. you shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

“They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them. you show them the reasons.”

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.