There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

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.

Love is magical, it changes and brightens up your world!

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

What does it matter?" I shrugged. "It's interesting and anything thats interesting is worth learning.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

Everyone is so afraid of making themselves look bad and of judgement.

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don’t know about, and if I haven’t done it, I’ll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.