My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.