We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.