in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.