I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.