Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

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.

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

I was a lifeguard. It was my summer job growing up, and I never saved anyone. I never had to, thank goodness.

When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

You're gonna notice me when I come in. I'm gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you're gonna remember that.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

I used to practice Wicca.

Everything I say is 95% truthful.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.