We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

He leaned in close, his mouth near her ear. “Dance with me.

... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...

Dreams are what keep us growing. they are what keep us alive...io give up is to let our dreams die..........

When the money goes bad, everything else goes bad.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on