"That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say 'No' in any of them."

"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."

"'Coolidge is dead' 'How could they tell?"

"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."

"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires."

"My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges."

"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them."

"It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory."

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them."

"I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."