When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.

I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong

I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.