The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls.

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

I often find it's just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It's how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.