We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.