I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.