We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.