For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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.

My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce....I thought he was missing.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz

Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.

I didn't think I was the right person to do that job but I do think Michael Gove is and that's why I'm backing him.

I liked money more than going to school.

Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.