Human sympathy has its limits.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Fear stagnation

Never say never. You never know when never may come.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.