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

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.

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.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.

The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences.

Over my slumber your loving watch keep - Rock me to sleep mother rock me to sleep.

There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?