[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it.

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

You decide which ones makes more sense, which is more practical and more logical to accept.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.