Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.