The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

When he put his arms around me, and held me to his chest, everything in me settled. When he spoke into my ear, it all came loose again, as if his words evaporated the gravity of my mind.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

I wouldn't change anything that happened.That's the way the game was played when I was coming up. The game is different now. It's just a by-product of the era.

A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.

We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.