I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Spiritual maturity is a natural part of sentient evolution

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

There is no business on a dead planet

But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

When people meet me they’re often surprised. I talk a great deal.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.