I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.