You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

The great trues are too important to be new.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.