"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."