America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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.

Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!

It was not war, it was murder.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

I'm for a stronger death penalty.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

Your mindset matters. If you don't have the mindset of a wealthy person ("How can I afford it?") versus a poor person ("I can't afford it."), you will never achieve wealth.

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.