I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.