Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Give up trying to make me give up

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Sunlight is painting.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.