It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

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.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place--some beloved place or tree--we thought you one of these.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.