Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. - Clare Boothe Luce

There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that — being what it is — it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.