Work alone qualifies us for life.

- Zoe Akins

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

- Zoe Akins

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

- Zoe Akins

Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

- Zoe Akins

To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

- Zoe Akins

No one can ever help loving anyone.

- Zoe Akins

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

- Zoe Akins

The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of…

- Zoe Akins

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

- Zoe Akins