Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.