Author Quotes

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

It's so hard to decide what to leave out.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

The only people who attain power are those who crave it.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.