In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.