I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Hearts are stronger than swords.