Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves

We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.

Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer.

If there was anything he’d learned in his life, it was to fight fire with fire, and if that didn’t work, piss on the fire to put it out.

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.