If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?" "I love to swim, too." said Adam. "So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.