Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.