It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep.

This is the consciousness revolution, You got the right to think, Don't think about it just do it

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.