What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

Emotionally intelligent people have an ability to manage stress as it happens and remain calm through chaos.

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.

Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?