Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

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.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.