In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

They say there is a fine line between love and hate. I once loved Kaleib like a brother, now I hated him with the same conviction.

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore they fill their little hands with sand and then let the grains fall through one by one till all are gone.

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.