Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.

The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability.

Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.

I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.

I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have