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

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.

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

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.