A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

A jug fills drop by drop.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

A lie never lives to be old.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Sunlight is painting.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.