We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.