You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

When it comes to relationships, I find it best to have two feet out the door

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.

The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.