the human heart clings - even to its pain.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.