If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.