Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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.

Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not, ’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind

Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.