The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

Think as if failure is not a possibility.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation

When I teach people, I marry them.