Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

I'm pretty much a goddess around here.

Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

It's just business nothing personal.

I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.