Death is the force that will create your new life. It is a mechanism of transformation. Welcome it.

Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

No offense but I don't relish being someone's science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian)