The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

We need our radicals.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."