Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

One can only organize so much and then leave the rest to fate.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.