"Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse."

"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."

"Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too."

"A forest bird never wants a cage."

"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

"I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath."

"A resilient spirit knows that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."