I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
A good liar must have a good memory.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
