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

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

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

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.