Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.