There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
My head rang like a gong.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.