I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was after all along was already its possession

Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.

You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.

No life is great that does not point to Christ.

He who despairs is wrong.