Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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.

Don’t dwell on the circumstances, focus on God’s grace.

Almost everything that I've ever worried about has never happened ..

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

Inspiration is intention obeyed.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.