Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

Happier'n young'uns bustin' outta school fer summer break!

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.

The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done.

Remember one rule, no rule.

The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.