Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

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.

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

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