Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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.

Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?

The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart is.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.