Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.