The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.