32 quotes
American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)
“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.”
"That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer."
on Patience
"The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude."
on Death
"People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome."
on Relationships
"Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it."
on Leadership
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
on Freedom
"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
on Inspirational
"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
on Love
"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."
on Courage
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
on Faith
"Pride avarice and envy are in every home."
on Philosophy
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
on Happiness
"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."
on Writing
"Where there is an unknowable there is a promise."
on Hope
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
on Mindfulness
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
on Life
"It is only dogs that never bite their masters."
on Truth
"Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan."
"If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good"
"The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder."
"For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation."
