Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

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.

Time they say is a great healer, but in this case, I am not sure that is true.

Life is a dancing dew drop on the tip of a leaf.

The Moving Finger writes and having writ Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.

I've always burned my bridges before me.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.