At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die.

If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

Not to love is to cease to live.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.