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.

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

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

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.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

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.