Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here. ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

Nature always levies her tribute.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.