There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

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.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

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.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.