My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said, "Just wait."
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.
It is a public scandal that gives offence and it is no sin to sin in secret.
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down."
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
My theology, briefly, Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.