I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

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

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

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.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.