Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
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.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.