By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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.

Faith is the fountain of life.

Work harder on improving yourself than on trying to forge better relationships.

She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

Life is hard . . . but we cling to it all the same

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.