We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.