My own rule is to let everything alone.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.

Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

You've got to S-M-I-L-ETo be H-A-Double-P-Y

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

I don’t believe we should carry backupplans in life’s suitcase—they’re too easy to unpack like living a life in yoga pants, so comfortable our hips spreadinto new timezones...

No sheep may leave the flock, " he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.

We have the best chance of communicating our thoughts if we are sincere and speak from the heart, without hidden intent.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.