The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.