If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.