Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.