That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.