When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Duty without love is deplorable.<br> Duty with love is desirable.<br> Love without duty is Divine.