It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Embrace the wonder

Fool that I am, " said he, "that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

Going to a fashion show is almost as painful as being in one.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

I like feeling like I'm discovering something new. That's really a special feeling and also, you don't have it that often. At least, I don't. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.