Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

Above all, tell the truth.

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

What has happened has happened and it is now behind you. Take the best of it all as you move positively forward.