Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

I couldn't say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]... How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC's top superheroes?

Information about money is more important than money itself.