All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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.

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them--when they feel understood by you--that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

If your not in it you're out of it.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.