Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...

Government is the right disposition of things.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.