I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Can’t repeat the past? … Why of course you can!

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

As I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.