No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

You are an original masterpiece

Failure is not an option

You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.