Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

People make one happy, not houses.

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

Thanks god to remind me again there is nothing true Except you

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Acclaim is a distraction.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.