Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.