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.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

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.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.