So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.