I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Words are dangerous things.

No one can steal my peace of mind without my consent.

Life may become difficult when you are out of sync with your heart-felt desires.

To become a father is not hard to be a father is however.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?

The questions are more important than the answers.