Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.