When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

All excellence is equally difficult.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

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.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.