Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.