all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!

Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

My girlfriend said, Emo, I'm seeing another man. I said, Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.