We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.

Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance is you being in your heart in the midst of it.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.

I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.