F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I wish I had saved more money when I was young."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"Always be kind to your haters. They are the ones who make you work harder."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

"The beautiful and damned are often one and the same."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice."

"The curious thing about the Middle West is that when you ask these people a direct question, you often get a perfectly direct answer."

"I believe that love is a good thing, but like a physical object, it has weight."

"Babylon revisited suggests that the past is never truly past."

"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly ahead."

"Intelligence is a force, and like all forces, it must be directed with wisdom."

"People disappear when they die. Their voice changes as soon as on the phone. And there is a decision we make to let them die."

"All the sad young literary men: a generation defined by disillusionment."

"The offing was barred by a thin line of dark cliffs."

"Character is determined by the choices we make when no one is watching."

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple man."

"The rich are different from you and me, and this difference lies in their capacity for self-deception."

"Writing is effort, and effort is pain, but from pain comes growth."

"Youth fades; what does not fade is the memory of passion."

"Every person has an internal landscape as complex as any external geography."

"The greatest achievement is not in never falling, but in rising each time we do."

"Money is only important insofar as it allows us to live without fear."

"The very rich possess a form of courage that the rest of us cannot fully comprehend."

"The past and future exist only in our minds; the present is all we truly possess."

"Talent is hereditary; it appears when least expected and with whom."

"A single moment of genuine connection is worth more than a lifetime of superficial relationships."

"The tragedy of human existence is our endless capacity for self-improvement coupled with our resistance to change."