I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

You make me greedy for you. I just can't get enough. I wish you would just accept it for what it is and trust me.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.

I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.