Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves, not only for what you are now, but for what you have the power to become.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.

Most novelists write about twisted lives.

Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life.