Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

Fate keeps on happening.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

I've always loved high style in low company.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes?

Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.

Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.

I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.