The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.