You don’t have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird.

He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn’t kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband.

There are forces in the world that we cannot see, and they are for good as well as for evil. And I sensed, with an inner certainty, that the forces of good were far more powerful than the forces of evil.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don’t feel it.

Because I had already resolved that if you’re afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

I didn’t know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When a woman’s face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she’s cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.

Doing good doesn’t always make you feel good. I don’t care what they tell you in church.

You don’t trade in the devil you know for the one you don’t know.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they’re the sum of our own stupidity.