Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.