Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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.

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

What you resist persist.

Jesus didn't suffer so we wouldn't have to suffer. He suffered so that we would know how to suffer.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

Always sing below your potential.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.