"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."

"I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget."

"A man that don鈥檛 believe in destiny don鈥檛 need to know what his destiny is."

"I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."

"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."

"There's only one way to fall down, but you won't know till you hit the ground."

"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."

"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being."

"It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman."

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."

"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."