Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.