"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"I was with book, as a woman is with child"

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"You can make anything by writing."

"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."