Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

I carry your kindness wherever I go. That way your love touches far more than just me.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.

If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

It is with artillery that war is made.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.