From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

If you want to give an advice to someone, you must first be somebody.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.