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.

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

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

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!