On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

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

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

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.

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.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.