Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.

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.

There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...

Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?""Pressure. Weight. Heat...""The geological equivalent of torture.

People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

Sometimes funerals and weddings bring out the worst rather than the best in people.

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.