Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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.

I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

And that vest won't help, cuz I'm aimin' at yo scalp

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.