The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

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

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.