I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.