People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Never give up on anybody.

... where does one person end and another person begin?

People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.