If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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.

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

I think I would have liked to have been a twin... Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.