I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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.

Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

Be together, in the moment of, enjoy each other, love each other, support each other, until the next time...Life is too short.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

I remember one guy saying, "You're the only human out of all of them," and feeling a little concerned that somehow that meant I wasn't as funny.

Friendship is communion.

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies