The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.