"If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it."
- Kathleen Norris
"Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it."
"There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city."
"Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that..."