I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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.

Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love.

Please accept this sandwich as a gesture of solidarity.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

It's a very strange league, the Championship, because on any given match day, any team can beat any other team.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.