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

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

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.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

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

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

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.