Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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 other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

My mother is quite the character. You'd hate her. Sometimes I think I hate her too, but mainly I feel sorry for her. Which is kind of worse.

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

We're better than Galileo. Because he's dead.

My wife and I had words - but I never got to use mine.

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

I really think I am a nice person. [But] this is not going to be an election on niceness. This is going to be an election on competence.

When you're in bed, you're dead

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.