For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.