Code breaker Mabel Elliott’s favorite quote was: It isn’t life that matters! It’s the courage we bring to it.

But whither should he run? He could not run so far away that his father could not find him – his father’s arm stretched to everywhere in the world.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams.

Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Don’t play for safety.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.