Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and the grandeur which envelops the whole horizon. Often, when the clouds pile up in the north and the sea is churned with white caps, I say to myself: "This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked out on from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.

Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.