Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.

The church isn’t just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who belong to Jesus Christ. If we belong to Christ, we also belong to each other.

Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.

I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.

Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.