You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.