All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.