Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

If she knew how beautiful love is, she would already put it in a box, seal, and preserve it.So she could smell it whenever she wants.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.