F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right."

"I've had a great life, if I had to do it over, I'd do it all the same way."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"An artist is someone who has learned to trust instinct."

"Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life."

"I don't know how to say goodbye. I hate goodbyes."

"The very important thing in life is not triumph, but combat."

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world."

"The more you do something, the better you get at it."

"We are all capable of change."

"Life is too short not to laugh a little."

"Everyone has a heart."

"Better to make a mistake than to miss the point."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

"I have always been a stranger in this world."

"Nothing is so beautiful as it seems beforehand."

"Anger is always one step ahead of you."

"The test of a good life is freedom."

"I am nothing but I am a whole lot of nothing."

"The future is uncertain and the present is hard to bear."

"There is something about a girl like you that just makes me want to do something big."

"The fault, dear friend, is not in our stars but within ourselves."

"I love the company of a good woman."

"Optimism is the content of small men in high places."

"A big man has no time really to do anything but work."

"The cruelest thing a man can do is to kill."

"The past is still of interest to the human race."

"All of the sad music plays in minor keys."

"There's nothing new under the sun."