"It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask."

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."

"How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?"

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."

"Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing."

"Oh what lies there are in kisses!"

"It is a subtle truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible."