This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in them that makes a good-natured noise like laughter through the keyhole of the reader's mind.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.