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.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

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.

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