This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Words are dangerous things.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

When I become mayor, we all become mayor.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.