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

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.

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

CHALLENGES MAKE US RISE TO THE OCASSION.

Find your own joy within and then greater joy will be added to you.

I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.

[Truman] didn’t want to fight the guy, whatever he was—alien, vampyr or douchebag.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you.

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to face it.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.