America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.