Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.