"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.