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.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

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.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

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.

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.