Fannie Hurst

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes."

"A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"We write to taste life twice."

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

"The moment one learns English, complications set in."

"Every man should have a wife, not because he is incomplete without one, but to have someone to blame for everything."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

"A person without imagination is like a bird without wings."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."

"The only thing that stands between a man and his dreams is reality."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"We do not remember days; we remember moments."

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

"The good earth is rich, and if men would work it together, it could make all of them rich."

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

"To be brave is to be afraid but do it anyway."

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."

"A true friend stabs you in the front."

"The only journey is the one within."

"What we think, we become."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back."

"The most important thing is not to stop questioning."

"If you tell the truth you do not have to remember anything."