Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.