I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Its better not to be born than falling in love.

That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering...

The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?