Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Never approach a crying woman entering a sports bar carrying a harpoon gun.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
I have had a wonderful time but this wasn't it.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
Without struggle there is no success
“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
Aspire to the principal, behave with virtue, abide by benevolence, and immerse yourself in the arts.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.