Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

Feeling grateful is good

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Our country has to straighten out. And we have to straighten out fast.

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.