Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

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.

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates, Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

The 'how's' are the domain of the universe. It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.