There is no end to the deceits of the past.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

There is too little courtship in the world.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

I really like sort of disappearing.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.