The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Love and respect changes everything.

Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

Life is as simple or complicated as we make it.

Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.