"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else."

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices."

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them."

"Women should be obscene and not heard."

"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."

"I have loved like a child collecting shells along the shore line, discarding one shell for another of seemingly more outward beauty with no knowledge of the pearls that were hidden within."

"A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money."