sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.