I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go