I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.