William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.