We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?

All monsters must die except the beautiful ones

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it.