So, Kerensa, you should never regret any experience, good or evil; for there’s some good in what’s bad just as there be bad in good...

When one grows older one learns that happiness – complete and unadulterated happiness – comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.

You always look as though you think people aren’t going to like you – that’s your trouble.

But somehow at the back of my mind was the feeling that if I did “the sensible thing” I would regret it, for I would be choosing a way of life that would be so predictable, it would rob me of all the excitement that made up the savor of living. If.

It will be a compromise, but that’s what the marriage often is.

Never underestimate yourself, Miss Jessie. People are going to think you’re not up to much if you think that way yourself.

It seemed I had briefly stepped into a world where people did wild things and paid for them; but it had made me see that there was more to life than being comfortable and living one day after another, quietly, unadventurously, almost like waiting for death.

A man condemns himself to failure if he thinks that he won’t succeed.

How strange is life. Suddenly when one has almost made up one’s mind to a certain action it casually throws an opportunity into one’s path.

People don’t always see what their eyes tell them is there. They see what they have made up their minds to see, and I’m afraid they might make up their minds that something done by a woman could not possibly be as good as that done by a man.