Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.
The world belongs to the energetic.
For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
Fate loves the fearless.
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
What one has to do usually can be done.
They make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it.
The laws sometimes sleep, but never die.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
My early and invincible love of reading, I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Similes are like songs of love: They much describe, they nothing prove.