There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.