Life is a journey, not a destination.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

My art and profession is to live.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Time is the best killer.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.