“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never see...”

“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion”

“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.”

“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”

“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”

“Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”