A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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.

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind.

Human nature was structured through the eons.What our environment of persistent scarcity has done to us during all that time is undeniable

They are rich who have true friends.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he's black. But I think he does have some good views.