What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honour you. People may judge you but God will justify you.
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.