Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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 cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Trust me, I'm a really nice guy.

Love heats my blood, blood spins my head, and my head falls in love.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

Happiness is a rare cosmetic.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.