Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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.

Is a figment of our imagination actually reality coming to life?

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that?

Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?

Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

I think that's coming to an end. And, you know, when we ... we can't beg them [russians] to get along with us. And I think there was some of that going on, which has now ended.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.