The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
She wants to know if you love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the cupboard.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.