Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.

We are the only nation where paper is still the mainstay in the private insurance industry.