sooner or later I do what I want to do.

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.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC

There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other, ' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.