Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.