To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

The best thing I’ve learned, and still believe, is that I don’t have to be perfect to start, I have to start... so I can begin learning and growing.

How do I tell her that all I want to do is roll around on my bed?

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

If the current is right, one can drift to success.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

Getting even is one reason for writing.