In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.