“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”

“Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.”

“It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.”

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”

“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”

“He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.”

“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”