F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."

"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."

"For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again."

"The victor belongs to the spoils."

"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others."

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."

"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."

"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."

"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."