I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.