The delights of self-discovery are always available.
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Nature's mighty law is change.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
I started smoking to lose weight. After I dropped that lung I felt pretty good.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.