I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.