I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.