Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.