A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
An idea is salvation by imagination.