A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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.

Nobody sees me like you do, and without you, I’ll be invisible. I exist because you see me.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.