I'm gonna try to quote this off the top so forgive my errors. Helen Keller said : "security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. The fearful are caught as often as the bold". That is my favorite quote.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
I can resist anything but temptation.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle. -Mahatma Gandhi