Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we offer life resistance, and what we resist most are the experiences that bring us pain.

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.