Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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.

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of love.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

If you think confident, you act confident.

There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.