I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.

A man must constantly exceed his level

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

Tennis is physical chess.