The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Humility is attentive patience.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
