Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst... - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."