Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.