Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.