One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.