Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.