It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

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

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

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?

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

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.