I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

I don't know if I'd call myself an optimist; but I refuse to entertain the notion of futility.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.