It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

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.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

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.

Only the soul knows its sorrow.

Every moment you lose your temper, you lose a moment of opportunity to love.

Money is a kind of poetry.

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Food nourishes you, brings people together, and I feel that anybody can bond over food.

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

I'm very loving and supporting of my actors. I also expect them to show up prepared, happy to be there, and give their all as I do as an actor.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.