Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.