Art is both creation and recreation.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

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.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.