Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.