Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.

Power is a test - the test - of character.

Poetry keeps my heart neat, even when incomplete, I find peace.

It's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.