“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”

“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”

“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. ”

“Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT”

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”

“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”