There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

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I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

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One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

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I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

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