“Now is the time for guts and guile”

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

“When people say: She's got everything. I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.”

“Its best to turn to no one, to seek to please no one, as if there were only oneself in the world. The pleasure of others is a by-product after all, and if ever the whispering voices are allowed to crowd out the one voice, the result is this...a sort of high-pitched silliness, a terrible silliness.”

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”

“Big girls need big diamonds.”

“Success is a great deodorant.”