You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.
A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.
The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.
True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children
The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool eyes, they are like ants gathering on rancid meet, like flies swarming on blood. Judgments of right and wrong bristle like porcupine quills: but if you meet them with cool feelings, that is like a forge melting metal, like hot water dissolving snow.
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.
I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.