“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

When you choose to perceive Love over fear, life begins to flow.

When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.

Helping begins with listening.

Eventually you’ll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you’ve copped and begin to put your own mark on them.