Nature always levies her tribute.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here. ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California.

Money was their God; work their religion.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.