It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
An idea is salvation by imagination
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
