Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

We always think that we are right and we are best, but look at back and if you can see your past the you will be best in future.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

If simplicity were easy, we would see more of it.