“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.”

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

You have to know what you want to get it.

You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it’s the only way you can test how far you can really go.

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.

I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.