Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel 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.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother