Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how tightly you keep the lid on, there is some watered stock of vanity inside. You are always in danger of the thing's coming off and of giving yourself an air or two. No man or woman was ever so distinguished that this exhibition did not make him ridiculous, especially to those of meaner minds.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

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.

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

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.