Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

I will build a car for the great multitude.

What was I elected for? ... This is a matter of core principle.

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

Life is essentially a question of values.

I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.

A starving army is actually worse than none.

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.