Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.