I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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.

Everything I didn’t know I was looking for…it’s there whenever I’m with you. I don’t know what it is that you think I deserve, but I don’t want anything other than what’s right here, right now.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!

Hard and impossible are two different things!

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

You're too damn selfish!

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.