Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea.

Women rule the world

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.