The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.

Don't be an artist. Be somebody's artist.

It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.

Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

I make love to pressure.