Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.