No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.