1. “Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.”
2. “I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate!”
3. “Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
4. “Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really: a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.”
5. “The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.“
6. “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”
7. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
8. ”What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
9. “Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
10. “Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”
