“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ”

“I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.”

“Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.”

“Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.”

“Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.”

“People who keep journals have life twice.”