A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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.

He was like a lot of Warmbloods, massive and showy and a bit of a dumb jock...

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

Jason rose from his deathbed so he could drown with the rest of the crew.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.

Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.