A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

It is the loving not the loved woman who feels loveable.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.