All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Life can be simple, it ain't easy. So don't take the easy option. Challenge the resistance, challenge yourself, become great

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.