There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that...
None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in ou...
Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who...