To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.