Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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.

You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence.

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).

I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

I am of the religion of all those who are brave and good.

I hurt my shoulder on the fifth tee - just hitting it too hard when you're too old.

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.