A good horse is the best company in the world.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Most prisons have wide gates!

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

They say it's lonely at the top. It must be even lonelier at the tippy top.

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

They were like two magnets who couldn't decide whether to attract or repel.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

We understand through resemblance.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.