To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

Never confuse activity with action.