My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays