"It is a essential truth that rise early, act with intent, and let your accomplishments speak with silent authority — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done."

"Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination."

"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."

"When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always."

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."