What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.