If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.