Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

They say I'm old news. Well who the new star? Cause if I'm goin anywhere it's probably too far.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

There can be conscious revolution.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?