Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

I did my dissertation on Kafka.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.