About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.