Great lovers have made great sacrifices.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

I don't give a damn what people think.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Many people in the world have a talent from God, but they do not know him

How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.