“To count – really and truly to count – a woman must have goodness or brains.”

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

It is deplorable to remove all the romance – all the mystery!

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

I’ve started doing yoga and meditation, but I’m not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.