I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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.

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions.

Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

America is the world's policemen, whether you and I like that or not. That's a fact. People globally feel that.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.