Fannie Hurst

"Every human being is interesting if you dig deep enough."

"The real business of life is trying to understand one another."

"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."

"A woman should become a woman primarily through her femininity, not her functionality."

"There is no royal road to anything."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

"A mother is a woman who demonstrates the power of pure love."

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"Starve out a cold and feed a fever."

"Character is what God and the angels know of us."

"The most interesting people in the world have stories."

"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."

"Facts are stubborn things."

"Life is the sum of small things."

"The great secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do."

"We are all salesmen of our own opinions."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but the conquest of it."

"A woman's life is never complete without friendship."

"Dreams are the mind's way of reaching toward the infinite."

"The human soul is hungry for beauty."

"Time flies when you are so engaged in life."

"Work is the best antidote to despair."

"Every person is a universe within themselves."

"Forgiveness is a noble gesture."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Love is not what the heart desires, but what it commands."

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."

"The seed of great discovery is always wonder."