By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

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.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere