Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.