Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.