The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

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.

Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.

Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power

She lifted a shoulder casually and slowly blinked."Where do you want to be?""With you, " he answered without hesitation.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

People think that by getting in touch with some being outside the body, it will solve their problems. This only creates problems. It won't help you a bit.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself