to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life..

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn….

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated..

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns..

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for….

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions..

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none..

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens..

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie..

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance..

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had..

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality..

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little..

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward..

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me..

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it..

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone..

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds..

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness..

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it..

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it..