A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

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.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

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 do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.