I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.

Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!