The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

To fill the hour,-that is happiness.

Most people are about as happy as they choose to be.

... The course of true love never did run smooth.

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.