A burnt child loves the fire.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.

Oh, one world at a time!

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.