Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

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

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.