As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.
No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence
The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.
To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. . . . And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.
Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.