When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What those powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring.

We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow.

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.