To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Golf is a mental disorder.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster!

There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.