Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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.

I am not a man of fear, but I am a man that knows how to fear. Without fear, we become lazy. Without fear, we become reckless. Fear doesn't limit a man, it keeps the man sharp.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

The best way for you to grow is to sack yourself.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

I'm not gonna die in 4/4 time.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.