... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.

There is always something left to love.

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense.