Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it…

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, to…

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

Love is the light that you see by.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

- Bess Streeter Aldrich