You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you are cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.- W. Somerset Maugham
You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Writing is the supreme solace.
When you choose your friends, do not be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
