So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.

... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

The place cast a spell on me, a lovely spell that seduced me one one breath at a time.

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.