I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it, ' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death.

I have made a personal decision NOT TO WORRY. This has tremendously contributed to my happiness!!

Leave my past... come in the present (PLEASE).

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will certainly be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.