When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

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.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.