I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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.

In some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over.

Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..." "You're seventeen, " Magnus said. "You can't have wrecked a life you've barely lived.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

Can't you at least die with a little dignity?

My words are my bullets.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.