I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.

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

The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

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

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.