I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present..

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me..

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows..

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in….

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another..

Is love the sweetness of flowers?.

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied..

I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and f….

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of ….

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being ….

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't mak….

Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morn….

Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a ….

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits..

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy..

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction..

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social d….

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expect….

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber….