Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.