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

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

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.