Find what you want. I will find you.
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.
Success is a great healer.
Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had.
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
In relations between the states. . . the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.
That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can. "