I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.