I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting..

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible..

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to brid….

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and s….

The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and….

The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we w….

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling..

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food..